The zero-cost activation of the en-Kor creatures combined with Daru Spiritualist or Task Force to build a creature with an arbitrarily large toughness
The planeswalker was designed before Commander was an official format and therefore transitions awkwardly into a 40 life format, where its ultimate ends up being way better than it was intended to be
But if you take a step back and look at how Treasure functions in the game, youll see its the missing jigsaw piece to fill a 28-year-old hole in Magic s otherwise stellar design
Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer Did you really expect anything else
MTG's New Avatar Mechanics Explained Wizards of the Coast also tried to make Avatar 's elemental bending abilities have effective and interesting counterparts in the game, which is mostly seen through characters like Aang, Katara, and Toph
Players jokingly call it Magic's first Planeswalker, since it's got three abilities and has such an outsized impact